How does a train robber’s corpse wind up in a carnival funhouse?

A guy brings a goat to a ballgame. What could possibly go wrong?

After over a dozen summers living amongst the bears, Timothy Treadwell (A.K.A Grizzly Man) and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenardwas were killed and eaten by a grizzly.

An amateur astronomer predicted a massive storm that would leave death and destruction in its wake.

A massive explosion rocked the area around Morgan, New Jersey as an ammunition plant blew up.

Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy) was brutally bitten by his co-star, a white tiger named Montecore.

Are snails able to communicate telepathically?

The UFO zoomed straight at the F-51, then at the last minute darted upward.

Scientists were able to retrieve the 18-foot chunk of a tentacle and from its size they estimate the squid to have been at least 25 feet long.

7 people died in one of the most infamous drug-tampering cases of all time.

Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning at least 8 different times.

9 men died and 7 were injured in what became one of the most famous train wrecks in American history.

One of the richest sunken treasures of all time found its way to the bottom of the Atlantic on this day.

With a 20-year run and 635 episodes, it stands as America's longest-running, prime time, live-action drama.

Evel Kenievel tried to jump Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a steam-powered rocket.

The SS Princess Alice, a fully-loaded passenger steamship, collided with the Bywell Castle, a cargo ship hauling coal.

Eastman’s criteria for a name were that it had to be “short and euphonious and likely to stick in the public’s mind.”

All hell broke loose as one of the biggest quakes to ever hit the east coast left 60 people dead.